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…initiated there, and the method of introducing them was satisfactory and ingenious. They were taken to the house in an automobile, their eyes blinded by an ordinary pair of motor-goggles, behind whose glass was a steel plate. The cellar itself was arranged as a permanent place of evocation. It was a far more complex device than that used by Vesquit in Naples, for in confusion lay the safety of the Lodge. The floor was covered with symbols which even the Fourteen did not wholly understand; any one of them, crossed inadvertently, might be a magic…
1905 · PDF PAGE 75
… a dove, Hovers, and lingers, and wings his flight, Spurned and rejected and lost to sight ; But we desire him, a holy bird, And we turn eyes to the hollow hills; For God is strong, and His iron word Mocks at the gods of the woods and rills. For our God is as a fire That consumeth every one That is underneath the sun. We, for uttermost desire, Must abase, with rent attire, Souls and bodies to His throne, Where above the starry choir Stands the jasper, where alone Vivid seraphim respire Perfumes of a precious stone, Where beneath His feet the di…
1905 · PDF PAGE 153
…p. Thou mayest be that great Osiris, bidding man’s high soul be free, Justified in its own higher self, made pure And perfect in its own eyes, being a god.
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
… tried. For it is in this last matter that you can aid us; and with this in mind I have come up from St. Jean de Luz to see you." Lisa's eyes danced with pleasure. "Do you know," she cried, "you are the first man that ever understood me?" [24] "Let me see whether I do understand you fully. I know very little of your life. You are half Italian, evidently; the other half probably Irish." "Quite right." "You come of peasant stock, but you were brought up in refined
1929 · PDF PAGE 99
…fatally false logic, its power of blinding you to facts that ought to be as clear as daylight — yes, even to the things before your very eyes. It will seek to bewilder you, to make you lose your mental balance — every trick is possible. And you will be so beaten and so blind that you have only one safe — guard; which is, to adhere desperately to the literal terms of your oath. "Do that, and in a little while the mind will clear; you will understand what empty phantoms they were that assailed you. But if you fail, your only standard is gone; the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 157
…ve phase, in which impressions came to her, like bees to a flower, without eliciting conscious response. And it was then that her bodily eyes opened. The action drew her back into her body; but the material universe held her only for a second. She saw the
1929 · PDF PAGE 236
…ar'e. Boot and saddle! No time to waste," he said hastily, to check any expression of gratitude. But as the two men gripped hands, their eyes were dim — they were thinking of England. So off went Cyril on the road to Paris, where his rendezvous was fixed. The victory had changed the aspect of the country in the rear of the armies as by stage-craft. There were no more fugitives, no more disorder. Still the long trains of wounded clogged the roads, here and there, but the infection of glory had spread like sunlight over a sky swept clear of storm…
1909 · PDF PAGE 58
…of the Zodiac are variously given, and the Planets agree with the face: thus, h ana Y, the ears; 3 and "4 , the nostrils; ©) and tw, the eyes; and fe) , the mouth. The hand: thumb, @ ; 1st finger, A ; 2nd, V; 3rd, Vv; 4th, ZL. These, however, vary somewhat. Cot. CVI.—These A bodes are enclosed in four circles : the Waters of Weeping, of Creation, of Oceanus, and the False Sea. mpare the classical four rivers of Hell. Cot. CVIII.—Incomplete and redundant owing to unconcentrated nature of Qliphoth. LinE 3.—Three Evil Forms before Samael are :-— S…
1929 · PDF PAGE 14
… of age, [22] his brightness and activity would have done credit to a man of forty; and the vitality of his whole being, the fire of his eyes, the quick conciseness of his mind, bore witness to an interior energy almost more than human. He was a small man, dressed carelessly in a blue serge suit with a narrow dark red tie. His iron-grey hair was curly and irrepressible; his complexion, although wrinkled, was clear and healthy; his small mouth was a moving wreath of smiles; and his whole being radiated an intense and contagious happiness. His gr…
1906 · PDF PAGE 32
… in eternal calm thy virginal depths lie. The peace of God, that passeth understanding, that am [! Even I, perceiving deeply beneath the eyes of flame The soul that, kindling, is not kindled: I have known thy Name. Awake, O soaring billows! Lighten the raging dome, Wrap the wide horizon in a single cloak of flaming foam, Leap in your fury! Beat upon the shores unseen! Devour your food, The broken cliff, the crumbled bank, the bar. I know the mood. Even so I see the terror of universal strife : Murderous war, and murderous peace, and miserable l…
1905 · PDF PAGE 21
…waters rippling by my feet, Trees that re-weave their branches lovingly, 3irds that pass passionate on pinions fect : Such quiet joys my eyes in slumber see— Let death’s keen sickle wander through the wheat ! I love not life o’ermuch; since loving thee My dreams arc sweet. Sing, little bird, it is dawn ; Cry ! with the day the woods ring; Now in the blush of the morn Sing ! Love doth enchain me and cling, Love, of the breeze that is born, Love, with the breeze that takes wing. Love that is lighter than scorn, Love, that is strong as a king, Lov…
1905 · PDF PAGE 74
…dearest. Woe on woe Hangs imminent to crush the slender sides And battered bulwarks of our state. O thou Whose hoary locks and sightless eyes compel Our pity and our reverence, and whose mouth Foams with the presence of some nearer god Insatiate of thy body frail, give tongue, If tongue may so far master deity As give his fury speech, or shape thy words From the blind auguries of madness. Our PROPHET. Ha! The rose has washed its petals, and the blood Pours through its burning centre from my heart. The fire consumes the light; and rosy flame Lea…
1905 · PDF PAGE 156
…s fountain in my deity. The incense fumes before me: Iam come, Isis, within this body that ye know, Transmuting ! Look upon me, ye blind eyes ! Behold, dull souls and ignorant desires ! See ifI be not altogether god ! [She assumes the appearance of her mature beauty, standing before them with the wand uprarsed, Wonder and worship! Sing to me the song Of the extreme spring! Rejoice in my great streneth And infinite youth and new fertility, And lave your foreheads in this holy milk That springs, the fountain of humanity, Luminous in the temple! R…
1905 · PDF PAGE 127
120 MYSTERIES: LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC Its song. But now I turn to thee, whose eyes Blaze on me with such look as flesh and blood May never see and live; for so it burns Into the innest being of the spirit And stains its vital essence with a brand Of fire that shall not change; and shudder- ing I Gaze back, spirit to spirit, with the like Insatiable desire, that never quenched, Nor lessened by sublime satiety, But rather crescent, hotter with the flame Of its own burning, that consumes it not, Because it is the pure white flame of God. I shudder, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 67
…n life curled— But oh! the biggest heart in all the world! XI. MARY. Mary, Mary, subtle and softly breathing, Look once eager out of the eyes upon me, Draw one sigh, resign and abide in maiden Beauty for ever ! Love me, love me, love me as I desire it, Strong sweet draughts not drawn of a well of passion, Truth’s bright crystal, shimmering out of sunlight Into the moon-dawn. Closer cling, thou heart of amazed rapture, Cords of starlight fashioned about thee net- wise, Tendrils woven of gossamer twist about us ! These be the binders ! Night wind…
1929 · PDF PAGE 51
…r to which he belonged, was a tall man bowed with ill-health. A shock of heavy black hair crowned a face pallid as death itself; but his eyes blazed formidably beneath their bushy brows. He had just returned from Burma, where he had lived for many years as a Buddhist monk. The indomitable moral valour of the man shone from him; one could see in every gesture the marks of his fierce fight against a dozen deadly sicknesses. With hardly a week of even tolerable health in any year, he had done work that might have frightened the staff of a great Un…
1929 · PDF PAGE 59
…s suspended a cluster of electric lamps, a flat shade covering these from above. The top of this shade is just about on the level of the eyes of a fairly tall man, standing. I can see clear over it from the edge of the table without straining. "Well, we went down to dinner, and the Poltergeist was exceptionally active all through the meal. The medium was exceedingly distressed by his insistence on the mysterious injunction to look out for game. It was only at dessert that the problem was solved. The medium screamed out suddenly, 'Oh! he's pinch…
1905 · PDF PAGE 60
…at walk to and fro, The love that hides his head. O living Head ! whose thorns are keen To bruise and pierce and slay ; O Christ ! whose eyes have always been Fixed fast upon the way, Where dim Jerusalem was seen A city cold and grey ! BY THE CAM 53 The flowers of fire that grow beneath And blossom on the Tree Are fed from his despair and death Who sings of land and sea, And all those mountains where thy breath, Jehovah, still must be. The censer swings to slower time 5 The darkness falleth deep : My cyes, so solemn and sublime, Relent, and clo…
1905 · PDF PAGE 210
…at canst not see the sun ! I am the Lord thy God:? make thou homage and orison !” The wild heads. sank in fear: Then, troubled, to those eyes Remembrance crept of many a year, Barred gates of Paradise. Again the Voice rolled in the deep, mingled with murmuring sighs : ‘¢T mind me of the day One? came from Death to me; His soul was weary of the day, His look was melancholy ; He bade me open in the Name that binds Eternity. ‘‘ Yet though He passed within And plunged within the deep, 1 The assumption of the form ofthe God of the Force whom one add…
1907 · PDF PAGE 117
…d night, a virgin bowed and curled, Stand at the foot; their ardours pale Systole and diastole of the world ! With life impearled (their eyes absorb) They visibly sustain the orb. Then let the tower in seven tiers Rise in its splendour marmorean, Unite the chill divided years In plain perception of the zeon. Cry clear the pean! Its tunes recoil About thy flanks, O Tower of Toil. Below be miners fashioned fair, And all that labour in the sea Sepulchred from the ambient air, A fatal weird of dole to dree. No time to be, no light to live. Earth’s …